Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.